I'm new to python and I'm trying to use the interactive python debugger in the standard python package. Whenever I run "import ipdb" in my text editor (atom) or in the command line through iPython then I get the error: ImportError: No module named 'ipdb'
Where is my ipdb module? It's still missing after I reinstalled python.
Thanks!
pdb is built-in. ipdb you will have to install.
pip install ipdb
ipdb comes with ipython, so if you already have ipython installed you can access it through that package using the following:
from IPython.core.debugger import Pdb
ipdb = Pdb()
Then you can use ipdb just as though you had done import ipdb, such as:
ipdb.runcall(self, func, *args, **kwds)
ipdb.run(self, cmd, globals=None, locals=None)
# etc.
If you don't have ipython installed, then you can just use pdb which is the built-in debugger. The main difference is ipdb has some extra bells and whistles.
In the specific case that you want a more featureful ipdb debugger (including things like autocomplete), ipython also has one built-in (from what I can tell it's actually the one that ipython uses by default). Specifically, you can instead run
from IPython.terminal.debugger import TerminalPdb
ipdb = TerminalPdb()
and get the same features as the commands from @Scott H's answer, but now you get autocomplete in the debugger that comes up!
If you installed using --user argument. You can check the executable name in ~/.local/bin. It's probably named ipdb3
$ ipdb
-bash: ipdb: command not found
$ ipdb3
usage: python -m ipdb [-c command] ... pyfile [arg] ...
Debug the Python program given by pyfile.
